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GBBO 4th thread - Will it be Ruby Tuesday in Final Week?..

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Myimaginarycathasfleas · 23/10/2018 21:27

...or will Kim Joy claim the title? Will Rahul nail it with a bake they DO have in India?

It’s anyone’s to lose.

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Riversleep · 31/10/2018 08:26

I don't see why they can't repeat the final showstopper. I wish Rahul well. What does annoy me is the producers manipulating the public then blaming them for being mean to Rahul. The overall programme felt manipulative.

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 31/10/2018 08:32

Whoever wrote that Guardian article must have been at the cooking sherry. It was shockingly bad from start to finish.

Doughnuts, no thank you, I can buy them in multi packs for less than £1.

Pita bread, ditto.
Landscape in various shades of sludge, what was the point?

The most cursory of potted bios from the families and friends, no detail, not even worth bothering.

A shambles of a tea party, all candy floss and bouncy castles. Would her Maj host such an affair at the Palace? Don’t think so.

And I know they had been hard at work but could the bakers not have taken off their filthy pinnys and put something on a bit worthy of the occasion? Ruby was in ripped jeans, Can’t even describe what Kim-Joy was wearing on her bottom half, Rahul looked like a mass murderer in a paint shop.

And then no proper catch up telling us what the bakers have been up to since. I wonder if it’s because in previous years they’ve all gone on to something baking related and this year’s cohort haven’t?

I bet if we saw the production team sitting round a table we’d be looking at the real life version of W1A’s Perfect Curve.

Not. Impressed.

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derxa · 31/10/2018 08:36

Rahul looked like a mass murderer in a paint shop. Grin

HiHoToffee · 31/10/2018 08:42

Rahul was always going to win, the whole show was primed towards it.

The showstoppers were shocking, what was with the colours? Were they told to avoid colours?

Overall I enjoyed this series but the final was awful.

Taffeta · 31/10/2018 08:46

I’m guessing they didn’t do the “what they are doing now” because since it went to C4, winners and runners up alike have bombed - just Google Sophie Faldo, last year’s winner. Sad

Goingonandonandon · 31/10/2018 08:50

I can't believe the final. The showstoppers - all of them - were hideous, and Rahoul was the worst looking one. I wouldn't have eaten it as the looks of it made me gag. I can't believe that yellow vomit pond in the middle. What was he thinking.

I felt that the presenters focus on looks whenever it suits them, execution when it suits them, technique when it suits them, and taste when it suits them.

Kim-Joy had fabulous technical elements that I had never seen done before. Did they mention it? no.

Very disappointed overall with the last episode, and with the showstoppers, and with the winner. What an inspirational speech he did at the end.

ChicagoLil · 31/10/2018 08:56

Doughnuts - deep frying
Pita bread dips - campfire cooking
Showstopper dessert - a pudding

Where's the baking?

ThanksItHasPockets · 31/10/2018 09:05

GBBO used to make my mouth water. Last night the only thing I’d have eaten was the baba ghanoush, and that’s because I REALLY love baba ghanoush.

I sincerely hope that the production team are providing Rahul with some kind of support to help him to cope with the spotlight of his win.

VanillaSugary · 31/10/2018 09:06

The Celebrity Bake Off episode which will never happen.

Contestants:

Jacob Rees Mogg
Banksy
Kanye West
Simon Cowell
Elton John
Anna Wintour
Mariah Carey
The Duchess of Cambridge

I need 4 more.

Livingloving · 31/10/2018 09:09

It was an odd final in terms of the tasks but I still enjoyed it and didn’t mind who won. I really don’t believe there was a ‘fix’ or that Rahul was earmarked to win from the start. How ridiculous.

flamingofridays · 31/10/2018 09:20

honestly the final was just bollocks.

I think someone needs to tell Hollywood that you cant change the rules whenever you feel like it. I don't know how many times he's said "we will only judge on these 3 bakes" whether they have been amazing all previous weeks or not, if their 3 bakes are shit, they're off.

But apparently not in the final, no. The "showstopper" is all that matters.

they were all shit, but then I think its probably difficult to make a sodding landscape look beautiful and be tasty in 17 minutes or whatever ridiculous time they gave them.

I would rather they gave them longer, and they actually got to put proper effort in and make beautiful tasty things. THATS why I watch bake off. I want to think my god that looks glorious, I don't want to think jesus Christ what IS that.

Oh, and making sodding pittas on a camp fire like boy scouts on their first meeting is NOT baking. !

MarshaBradyo · 31/10/2018 09:23

Paul H leads it too much
For some reason he was down on Kim Joy and big on Rahul
Especially when Manon was sent home
I didn’t mind Rahul but it seemed to be in his favour

cittigirl · 31/10/2018 09:24

I think the right person won. An incredible baker and very sweet but my god he needs to work on his confidence.

flamingofridays · 31/10/2018 09:24

really don’t believe there was a ‘fix’ or that Rahul was earmarked to win from the start

I can easily see how people do believe it though, he hasn't been pulled up on things that others have, he got through on a week where he literally didn't make one edible thing. He put buttercream on a doughnut ffs and they hated it and he still won. There were much better bakers in that competition than him, but because he's all shy and loveable, he won.

There were much better bakers in that tent than him.

Taffeta · 31/10/2018 09:40

Interesting that Dan isn’t still in touch with any of the other bakers....

TwitterQueen1 · 31/10/2018 09:40

The show has lost its integrity. Clearly the production team and Paul & Prue decided early on that Rahul would be the winner and they've excused his errors ever since. The show used to be honest and true to itself - whoever was the best baker on the night was the winner and the worst on the night went home.

I don't doubt he made some delicious food but he should have gone home at least once before the final. His mistakes were forgiven and brushed over, other people's weren't.

Not enough baking either! Too much faffing around.

This has been the most disappointing series ever I think. [tblsad]

TwitterQueen1 · 31/10/2018 09:41

bollocks Haloween Sad

PollyFlinderz · 31/10/2018 09:47

I feel way out on a limb here but I thought Rahul's show stopper was by far the best.

Yes. I agree. But it really only was the best of a bad bunch.

ButterflyOfFreedom · 31/10/2018 09:53

I was really disappointed too.
Doughnuts? Pitta bread over a camp fire? Horrid looking so called showstopper???
And the standard just didn't seem as good as previous years.
I think they need to go back to basics and stick to proper British traditional baking.

flamingofridays · 31/10/2018 10:13

I do, and they should have more time. I don't want to see them fail!

and they should obviously get rid of Hollywood.

00100001 · 31/10/2018 10:29

Rahul has NEVER EATEN A DOUGHNUT BEFORE???

Has been fucking living under a rock?? Confused

00100001 · 31/10/2018 10:30

Even if he'd never tried one, 3 minutes of Googel Search would show that you don't use BUTTERCREAM.

he won the whole competition? and he didn't know what to put on a bloody DOUGHNUT? what did he spend the last week even doing??

flamingofridays · 31/10/2018 10:32

but 00100001 I am sure he said something like "I like a lot of filling in my doughnuts" after that - so has he or hasn't he!!

00100001 · 31/10/2018 10:38

...I just watched that bit... and came on here to say the exact same thing flamingo Shock

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wowfudge · 31/10/2018 10:42

@VanillaSugary - I suggest:

Lady Gaga
Bear Grylls
Usain Bolt
Sean(n) Walsh - just to outrage people